Tag Archives: GDPR

We follow up on not using Facebook for logins and Apple and AWS request the Bloomberg retract the Chinese Spy Chip story. Apple is working on a patch for the #Beautygate — where the iPhone XS is over beautifying portrait photos. We revisit Swift & Objective-C usage. The October 30th event will apparently introduce 2 new iPad Pros, iPad Mini, two iMacs and possibly a new MacBook. IBM open sources their Mac@IBM configuration. Tim Cook calls for strong US Privacy legislation. We touch on the upcoming 5G mobile service. Picks: Xcode 10 patches to Advanced Apple Debugging & Reverse Engineering, Hawkeye Access.

We follow up on watching Dr Who in the US without cable, iOS 12 adoption is greater than iOS 11 a year ago, FaceBook will in fact track you via Portal in-home. Apple plans to give video content away to Apple device owners for free. We dig in on the cost to repair Apple gear; the right to repair and past examples of Apple’s efforts to improve experience at the cost of speed. Adobe has announced Photoshop CC for iPad. Apple will allow users in the US to download all the info Apple has on them. Picks: Watch Apple, Amazon, Google & Tesla solve delivery problems, Cmd-Shift-5, Luna Display, The Illustrated TLS Connection, Swift & Fika 2018, Skydio’s self-flying drone can now be controlled using just an Apple Watch.

We’re back and answering Greg’s askMTJC on DuoTang portfolios. We follow up on alternatives to Back To My Mac, we have a date for the new iPhone & Watch announcements, new iPad renders, Tim Horton’s and Stanford’s Heart Study. Apple and developers suffered an CloudKit outage. Apple buys an AR glasses startup. New apps and updates will require a published privacy policy going forward. An iOS 12 alert is driving beta testers nuts. Picks: Carbon, 360|iDev, Apple IBM & SAP, Fan Expo Canada

We follow up on Greg’s #askMTJC about how much of the US is north of Toronto, as well as fact check on Canada’s north. Adobe announces that it plans to bring Photoshop to iPad. The Verge has a quick video on GDPR. An Ex-Apple engineer arrested on his way to China. Apple iOS 11.4.1 Has A Nasty New Surprise. Apple Memoji treatment of Apple Executives. New MacBook Pro with faster performance and pro features. An external GPU for the MacBook Pro. iPhone 2018 sizes leaked. EU fines Google $5B. Picks: xed, What’s My Age Again?, Beyond Meat Vegetarian Burgers Arrive At A&W, Affinity Designer for iOS.

This week we follow up on MTJC 2018 T-Shirts and the origins of Apple’s Command Key. We also follow up on the Apple Store founders, Apple’s GDPR profile downloads, Apple Watch usage and Apple’s self driving cars. We discuss the Home Pod sales numbers, erroneous new Siri features, and a sophisticated worm virus and one of the first Internet hackers. We also chat about Apple’s own podcasts and their use of original illustrations on the App Store. Picks: A handy Xcode keyboard shortcut to the Assistant Editor and App: the Human Story, Developing UIViews in Xcode Playgrounds and 1Password 7.

We start with a T-Shirt sighting in Berlin’s UIKonf. We follow up on more GDPR data retention updates, this time from Google and MailChimp. Also Apple may launch a credit card, Carnegie Melon is offering an undergraduate degree in AI, Swift.org forums is supporting related products, ClassicKit surfaces to offer Win 98 UI for iOS apps, Logitech Crayon for iPad is now available, and a customized iPhone X with solar charger. It’s the anniversary of the launch of the Apple Store. Apple has registered 50 self-driving cars in California. Picks: UIKonf 2018 Livestream, Visual Studio Code. Aftershow: Nova Machine Learning, Amazon HQ 2 search continues and a missed #askMTJC on timezones.

We follow up on LHOTP, the darker side of Charles Proxy for iOS and Apple Business Manager. Chris Lattner has announced Swift for TensorFlow. iOS 11.3 has been released along with Xcode 9.3. Apple is allowing users to manage their data in iCloud. Beta versions of iOS 11.4 & tvOS 11.4 are out. Apple may use they’re own processors in Macs as soon as 2020. Picks: XcodeReleases, Microsoft’s AI courses, CompactMap and Atom

About the Podcast

MTJC podcast is a show about mobile development. Each week, Jaime Lopez, Mark Rubin (sometimes Greg Heo, Tammy Coron, and Aaron Vegh) and myself, Tim Mitra, will convene from across the continent to discuss iOS and Mac development.